Basic Sour Cream Cake

Total Time: 48 mins Preparation Time: 8 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package plain cake mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 generously grease and flour a 13 x 9 inch baking pan.
• 3 place cake mix, sour cream, oil, eggs, and vanilla in mixing bowl.
• 4 blend with mixer on low speed for 1 minute.
• 5 stop machine, scrape down sides of bowl.
• 6 increase mixer speed to medium and beat 2 minutes more.
• 7 scrape down sides again if needed. the batter should look well combined and thickened.
• 8 pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• 9 place pan in oven.
• 10 bake the cake until it is light brown and springs back when lightly pressed with your finger, 35-40 minutes.
• 11 remove pan from oven and place on wire rack to cool for 20 minutes.
• 12 run a dinner knife around edge of cake and invert it onto wire rack.
• 13 allow cake to cool completely, 30 minutes.
• 14 frost as desired.